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Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Complexity: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Jeffrey Parsons (Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives): 1 - Softcover

Blanton, Richard E.

 
9781931745208: Settlement, Subsistence, and Social Complexity: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Jeffrey Parsons (Ideas, Debates, and Perspectives): 1
Softcover
ISBN 10: 193174520X ISBN 13: 9781931745208
Publisher: Costen Inst Archaeology Press, 2006

Synopsis

This volume brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory. Parsons is a central figure in the development of settlement pattern archaeology, in which the goal is the study of whole social systems at the scale of regions. In recent decades, regional archaeology has revolutionized how we understand the past, contributing new data and theoretical insights on topics such as early urbanism, social interactions among cities, towns and villages, and long-term population and agricultural change, among many other topics relevant to the study of early civilizations and the evolution of social complexity. Over the past 40 years, the application of these methods by Parsons and others has profoundly changed how we understand the evolution of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican civilization, and now similar methods are being applied in other world areas. The book's emphasis is on the contribution of settlement pattern archaeology to research in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, but its authors also point to the value of regional research in South America, South Asia, and China. Topics addressed include early urbanism, household and gender, agricultural and craft production, migration, ethnogenesis, the evolution of early chiefdoms, and the emergence of pre-modern world-systems.

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About the Author

Richard E. Blanton is professor of anthropology at Purdue University.

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This volume brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory.

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This volume brings together the work of some of the most prominent archaeologists to document the impact of Jeffrey R. Parsons on contemporary archaeological method and theory.

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Publisher
Costen Inst Archaeology Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
193174520X
ISBN 13 
9781931745208
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
328